lost_spook

Pick any story I've written, or, in the case of my longer, chaptered works, any chapter from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

(You can find ones I've done previously under the commentary tag).

I'm obviously far too obscure for my own good. The fandom was actually Babylon Five (though there's also a nod to The Man Who Was Thursday). Here are the headers:

Title: Recruit
Author: john_amend_all
Fandom: Babylon Five
Characters: OCs, Ulkesh Naranek
Rating: All ages
Word count: ~1900
Disclaimer: Ulkesh was created by J. Michael Straczynski.
Summary: In Victorian London, a working girl finds she's on the side of the angels.

(AO3 link)

This isn't any of my WIPs, but it wanted to be written.

Also, I'm not including headers or tags, because it'd be interesting to know at what point you recognised the fandom / characters (if you did).

The other week, romanajo123 left a comment on Aedos which plotbunnied me:

Walking Work Of Code (353 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
Additional Tags: Ficlet
Summary: Zoë's determined to make the most of her holographic clothing.

Memed from lost_spook and liadtbunny, a WIP meme. Though given the amount of writing I've done in the past five months, the possibility of any of these seeing the light of day seems remote:

lost_spook

List the first five (or so) lines of your last 20 stories (or however many you have altogether. WIPs count). See if there are any patterns.

From the ficlet meme back in March, I've actually written something. This was from romanajo123's prompt: Ace & Ray - “You’re supposed to talk me out of this.”

Andromeda (509 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rachel 'Ray' Defwydd, Ace McShane
Summary: Ray supposed it was very mythological, being chained to a rock waiting for something unpleasant to slither out of the sea and eat you.

romanajo123 asked about The Rags of Time: ( 1-6, 11 )

liadtbunny asked about Genius and Geniality: ( 11, 13 )

lost_spook asked about Skirmish: ( 3,6,11 )

lost_spook

Choose a fic I've written and 1 (or more) question(s) from the list below:
( Questions follow )

(My fic at: AO3 | Teaspoon | TTRArchive)

lost_spook

So... Give me two characters or more (pairing or otherwise) and a prompt number and I’ll write a ficlet:

( prompts follow )

146) Deeper - Megan Hart
Twenty years ago she had her whole life spread out before her.She was Isobel Watkins, a fresh-scrubbed, middle-class student ready to conquer the design world. And she was taken. Absolutely and completely. But not by Elizabeth, her well-groomed, intellectual girlfriend who had hinted more than once about a ring. No. During that summer she met Zoë Heriot, the moody, dark-haired, local bad girl. She was, to put it mildly, not someone she could take home to Daddy. Instead, Zoë became her dirty little secret — a fervent sexual accomplice who knew how to ignite an all-consuming obsession she had no idea she carried deep within her. Isobel had always wondered what happened to Zoë after that summer. And now, back at the beach house and taking a break from responsibility, from marriage, from life, she discovers her heartbreaking fate — and why she never came back for her. Suddenly Zoë's name is on her lips... her hands on her thighs... dark hair and eyes called back from the swirling gray of purgatory's depths.

Memed from lost_spook:

1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.

stitching-in-time

Give me a character and I’ll tell you my headcanon for:

• What they smell like:
• How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc):
• What music they enjoy:
• How much time they spend getting ready every morning:
• Their favourite thing to collect:
• Left or right-handed:
• Religion (if any):
• Favourite sport:
• Favourite touristy thing to do when travelling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc):
• Favourite kind of weather:
• A weird/obscure fear they have:
• The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail:

lost_spook

Comment to this post with a fic title (a word, phrase or quotation), a fandom and, if desired, a character or pairing. I'll reply with a summary of the fic I won't write for that title, in this way generating plot-bunnies, gaiety of nations and perhaps even actual fic by other people.